Package: solr-tomcat Version: 3.6.2+dfsg-13 Severity: grave Dear Maintainer,
According to my logs, tomcat8 is not properly starting solr. I have checked, and to the best of my knowledge I have not modified any of the configuration files. I tried reverting to java-8, (by modifying JAVA_HOME in the /etc/default/tomcat8 file), but that did not turn out to be the problem. Here are the logs of the failure: 18-Jul-2018 22:01:19.148 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor Deploying configuration descriptor [/etc/tomcat8/Catalina/localhost/solr.xml] 18-Jul-2018 22:01:19.505 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal ContainerBase.addChild: start: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/solr]] at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:167) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:754) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:730) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:734) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:629) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1839) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:514) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641) at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:844) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.tomcat.util.scan.StandardJarScanner.process(StandardJarScanner.java:373) at org.apache.tomcat.util.scan.StandardJarScanner.scan(StandardJarScanner.java:191) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processJarsForWebFragments(ContextConfig.java:1888) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1116) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:765) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:299) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:94) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5154) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) ... 10 more 18-Jul-2018 22:01:19.506 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor Error deploying configuration descriptor [/etc/tomcat8/Catalina/localhost/solr.xml] java.lang.IllegalStateException: ContainerBase.addChild: start: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/solr]] at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:758) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:730) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:734) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:629) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1839) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:514) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641) at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:844) -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages solr-tomcat depends on: ii solr-common 3.6.2+dfsg-13 ii tomcat8 8.5.32-1 solr-tomcat recommends no packages. solr-tomcat suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Michael Welsh Duggan (m...@md5i.com)